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  • A Complete List, or Myopic Look At Just The White People We Think Matter?


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    ( Editor’s Note: Bryan’s was the email that alerted us to the problem with our post recognizing media leaders who we lost in the last decade , post and we invited him to respond on the site. Here is our note on the matter. RS ) Really? I just don’t get it. In your piece “A Retrospective: 28 Media ...
    1 day ago
  • Free Flick of the Day: See No Evil, Hear No Evil


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    Without a doubt, one of the greatest comedic pairings of all time was Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor . Stir Crazy, Silver Streak, Another You ... each had its charm, ranging from the story of a runaway train to a comedy directed by one Sidney Poitier. But my favorite has always been See No Evil, Hear No Evil ...
    5 days ago
  • ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: SILVER STREAK


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    On this day in 1976, 20th CENTURY FOX released SILVER STREAK. Directed by ARTHUR HILLER from a script by COLIN HIGGINS, this comedy/suspense film was the first of four very popular pairings of GENE WILDER and RICHARD PRYOR. HILLER loaded this cross-country train trip with a score by HENRY MANCINI and a supporting cast ...
    6 days ago
  • Imagined Films: Woody and Richard


    Bubblegum AestheticsAuthority Authority: 111
    (clips NSFW) IMDb tells me that today is the shared birthday of two comic giants: Woody Allen (who is 74), and Richard Pryor (who would have been 69). This got me wondering-- what would it have been like to see these two men collaborate on a film? It seems counter-intuitive, at first, to pair the brilliantly ...
    1 week ago
  • Viewing Log #22: Everybody in the world [11/23/09 - 11/29/09]


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    by Ryland Walker Knight —No exit Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip [Joe Layton, 1982] # So dark, so perfect, so hilarious. So hard to be good at standup. You can watch it online over here , but we watched it on cable. We all fell over a lot. Mon oncle dAmérique [Alain Resnais, 1980] ...
    1 week ago
  • December 1 in history


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    On December 1: 1640  End of the Iberian Union : Portugal acclaimed João IV as King of Portugal, thus ending a 60 year period of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg  ( (also called the Philippine Dynasty). 1761 Marie Tussaud , French ...
    1 week ago
  • What Nick is thankful for


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    A lot of us here at TV Squad have been listing that for which we are thankful. Like many of the others, I feel I have to start with my wife and family, and my friends. And Id also add the comedy community in Boston, where I work, and beyond, for giving me something worth writing about and following day after day, year ...
    2 weeks ago
  • I’m Dying Up Here


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    It was the 1970s. Hundreds of comics slowly trickled into Los Angeles in search of a spot on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The Tonight Show could make or break a comic’s whole career. Johnny’s opinion of an act influenced entertainment executives and the American public. After each set, Johnny would, at ...
    2 weeks ago
  • George Carlin: The Last Words of America’s Greatest Comedian


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    For half a century, somewhere in America, night in, night out, George Carlin stood on a stage, raging, berating, sniping, griping, purring questions, snarling answers, kicking holes in the polyester pants of hypocrisy, puking down the nice clean tux of conventional wisdom, convulsing audiences and never failing to do ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Richard Pryor. Mr. President


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    3 weeks ago
  • "There’s a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground."


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    “There’s a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.” - Richard Pryor
    3 weeks ago
  • Ask A Ho: Richard Pryor’s Still E-Dating


    Red Dirt KingsAuthority Authority: 126
    Red Dirt lovelies, So, the hottie-hot friend at work is still getting weekly creepy letters from her Richard Pryor e-dater.  And I have to share. It’s too creepy not to. So, as a refresher, this is where we left off … And here’s Richard Pryor’s response to her: Note: all of the punctuation and ...
    3 weeks ago
  • thirty movies hath november - Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip (1982)


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    it is possible Id seen stand-up before watching Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, but if so, Richard made me forget about it. RPLotSS was one of the first shows that incorporated performance into stand-up Richard covered a lot of ground ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
    4 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago
  • "I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."


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    “I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.” - Richard Pryor
    4 weeks ago
  • That’s not funny!


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      Stand-up comedy has it roots in many different kinds of entertainment from the late 19th century. There’s traces of vaudeville, English Music Hall, minstrel shows, humorist monologues of various kinds, and even circus clown antics. In the US it developed into a club act in the 1950’s and 60’s. It quickly ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Paul Mooneys TV history from Black Is the New White


    TV SquadAuthority Authority: 702
    Paul Mooney is well known to stand-up comedians for his own work and for writing for his longtime friend, Richard Pryor. Outside of that, though, his name recognition gets a little fuzzier. So for TV comedy fans, Mooneys new memoir, Black Is the New White , provides some great behind-the-scenes moments they should ...
    4 weeks ago
  • "I’m for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay..."


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    “I’m for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.” - Richard Pryor
    4 weeks ago
  • "Fuck you motherfucker!!"


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    “Fuck you motherfucker!!” - Richard Pryor
    4 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago

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